ABINGDON ARCHAEOLOGICAL GEOPHYSICS

NEAR FARINGDON, OXFORDSHIRE

We did 4 magnetometery grids, each of 30 x 30metres, to see if magnetometery worked in this area and appear to have found a multi-period site, probably medieval.

If further work is done we will clear the farm machinery from the edges of the field so we can survey the whole field

We also did part of a grid, (shown coloured here), with resistivity, and this gives a similar but slightly different picture. Ideally one would use both methods on the whole site before deciding what, if anything, to do next.

Later we did the whole field  on a different grid alignment and got a fairly complex site which will need a lot of work to sort out. At least the geophysics should enable small trenches to ascertain its state of preservation to be targeted.

North at top. 30 x 30metre grids